The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-09-03
RFLIGIQIgS.

necdsslty; without u mankind would
nave ceased 20 existed ages ago.
Every enc wishes to have truth on
his eide, says Whately s.bns Il is not
every one who sincerely wishes to be
on the side oftrnth.
Bions impulses are sno proof Of con-
secraiion. What we need is grace to
resolve such impulses into permanent
principle. DT. n. &. MFonfort.
Chzrcoal ard diamond are the same
nateriaI-=cafbou One absorbs The
Hight, The other rejects II. There are
charcoal Christians and diamond Chris
tians.
The noblest characters are those
who have steered life's vessel through
tho stcrmiest sea, a bed of down
never nurtured great soldier yei.---#
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Grace not improved will be impair
ed. Hast thou faith, love, zeal, hui
mility, but no stronger than many
years sgone Thou hast been Idle
and better b sick than idle
Madagascar is almost a miracle of
missionary triumph. The native Chris
.tia1s Of that island have given more
than ESQ.,. 900 for the spread Of the
gospel within the past ten yesTs.
/ Missionaries have done moresfor the
/ literary world than All the societies
and Institutions ofthe earth. In the
past eight years They have formed,
and reduced 10 writing, over forty
languages
In ten years, more than $4,000 peo-
| Pile embraced Christianity in the Sans
oan Islands. Tits thought there are
not more than twenty houses in the
whole greHp where there Is not BIZ
bic and fa1aily worship. f
The Presbyterian Church of the
United States raised $Fs0,00o last
year for foreign missions. OF this
splendid sum the Womsn's Board
contributed over &2A8, 900. Truly
this is magnificent giving. /
4 The rainbow that plays in the ad
verse sunlight seems for momeEt a
vast and stable arch that spans. the
earth and reaches to the clouds. We
look again and it is gone ;tnot aaVes
ltige remains. Thus it Is with all earth
~ things.
A You fiud yonself refreshed by the
presence of cheerful people; why not
make earnest effort TO confer that
pleasure on others? You will find
half the battle gained If yon never
allow yourself 10 say anything gloomy.
Lydia AEaria Child.
\ If.parents knew moro of Christ and
praeticed more of his religion. there
wouldrnot be so many little feet al
Why's starting on the wrong road, and
all around us voices Of riot and bias
phemy would not come up with such
eestaey of internal trinmph.-1dl-
mage. i
M. 5runkard shall inherit the kiog-
dom of beaveD. Gods Word declares
How then can A man who makes drunk
ards or keeps A druukard factory ex-
meet 10 enter heaven ? And how can
s.Ch1stian vote. TO license a drunkard
:, factory or.vote tor man who IS IN ia
, vor Of them aud patronlses them =
!, W'ssterR sReeorder.
When a day of sickness and pain
comes to as, it IS a day which the
. Great Teacher, who is also the Great
!, Lover, calls us to pass in His School
/ of Patience TO learn the Lesson Of
/ Resignation which He alone can make
i at once clear and sweet. Itrrepeats-
! ne EepeslS--the Sef'Ptlsal mandate
7 .s y ourSe''eS /" o"''' -7"@N'sS
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4 females He isfTePorted as saying al
; the late commencement OF the hoiiins
a Institute that the coming woman must
;, nrst come, before the coming man can
g come ne oelieVes mat woman,S ed
acs'leh soaght 10 be extended aud that
II What our nomes ere our country and
Or our churches VIII oe'--teatrof BgP
Is t'sI
IN Believe in Gods love and Won, Ills,
q many ao9taer .Mo1haed soldier, shal
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= AS flowers never put on their bes
clothes for Sunday, bat wear tbei
" spotless Faiment aud exhale- their odo
p every day, 50 let your Christian life
y free from stain. eyer give gfartb ~,